Letters

Spring has finally sprung and before you know it, the U.S. 25 Yard Sale will be here. Grant County had a wonderful turn-out last year and this year will be even better. This year’s date is June 6, June 7 and June 8 and now is the time to start getting ready. We have established the first Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in June every year for the yard sale.

The first week of the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly is now complete. The legislature is now recessed for three weeks to give members time to organize, review bills, and draft others. We will reconvene February 5 for the remaining 26 days of session.

Where did respect
for others go?
I would like to commend Deborah Lucas Angel for her recent column “What a waste!”. She was right on the money concerning laziness of shoppers. As an employee of Wal-Mart, I see this everyday. When we find items from the freezer or coolers, we are required by the state to throw these items away. We also throw away any item that the customer leaves at the checkout aisle because they do not want them and do not feel it is their place to put them back where they got them.

Will you do the same?
On Nov. 29, 2012, the United States Senate unanimously re-authorized the U.S. Fire Administration and both fire service grant programs (SAFER and AFG). Despite the oncoming “fiscal cliff,” run-away deficits, and impending draconian cuts to discretionary spending, Senators were unanimous in their support for the fire service.
If staunch conservatives, such as Kentucky Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul were able to agree with their more liberal colleagues that adequate funding of

Since I don’t tweet, text or e-mail I must revert to the age-old method of communicating by “taking a pen to hand” and besides my ribbon on the typewriter has faded away.
Yes, it’s old-fashioned and outdated, as many things in life, all except memories, those never fade away. Memories are sometimes the only things we have left of the past.
And so it seems that is the case with the burning of the building of the Dry Ridge Consolidated Colored School, now a memory.

Many children need good, adoptive homes
As this is National Adoption Month, I just felt the need to write this. When I was born in 1939, my mother became ill with TB and she died a year later. My dad then left me and my older brother with my elderly grandparents on a search for another woman. My grandfather passed away, leaving us with our grandmother to care for us.

Choose city council members wisely
“Two public meetings, two votes, two different outcomes.” “ I was against the project but now I am for it.” “I said then, it’s not my first choice for our city but where it’s located on the west side of 75, the impact would be extremely small to the city. If it was on the east side of 75, I wouldn’t be for this.”
These statements were from elected officials that voted in favor of “A” truck stop.